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Noland was the first native of Louisiana to serve as Bishop of the Diocese. He was elected Bishop Suffragan in 1952 and served under Girault M. Jones until being made Diocesan upon Jones' retirement.
Louis William Valentine DuBourg PSS (French: Louis-Guillaume-Valentin DuBourg; 10 January 1766 – 12 December 1833) was a French Catholic prelate and Sulpician missionary to the United States. He built up the church in the vast new Louisiana Territory as the Bishop of Louisiana and the Two Floridas and later became the Bishop of Montauban and ...
Most Rev. Doctor Luis Ignacio Maria de Penalver y Cardenas was born August 3, 1749, in Havana. He was appointed first Bishop of Louisiana in 1793 but did not come to New Orleans until July 17, 1795. He took possession of the Parish Church, which had become the St. Louis Cathedral.
Mar 9, 2022 · It would take until 1838 for the Diocese of Louisiana to organize and elect Leonidas Polk as the first bishop of the diocese in 1841. Our bishops experienced and led our diocese through Reconstruction, World War I, the Great Depression in the 1930s, World War II, the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, the split of our diocese ...
4 September 1833. (1833-09-04) (aged 33) New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Buried. St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Leo-Raymond de Neckère, C.M. (6 June 1800 – 4 September 1833), was a Belgian -born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of New Orleans from 1830 until his death in 1833.
Leonidas Polk (April 10, 1806 – June 14, 1864) was a Confederate general who was once a planter in Maury County, Tennessee, and a third cousin of President James K. Polk. He was the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana and was for that reason sometimes known as The Fighting Bishop.
May 23, 2024 · Bishop Louis Guillaume Dubourg: In 1812, Bishop Louis Guillaume Dubourg was appointed as the bishop of the new diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas. He was instrumental in establishing the church in the region.
